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ruth berktold

PRINCIPAL YES ARCHITECTURE

Ruth Berktold is the founder and owner of YES ARCHITECTURE. Ruth Berktold has had a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich since 2002. Her field of research and instruction is in Architectural Design and the Conceptual Approach to Computer-integrated Design.

Ruth Berktold lived in New York from 1994 to 2002. She worked with Behnisch and Partner, Stuttgart, Prof. Eisele and Fritz, Darmstadt, Bernard Tschumi, Jim Polshek and Asymptote in New York.

YES ARCHITECTURE was founded in 2002, and Ruth Berktold and her team operate internationally in the field of architecture and design.

Ruth Berktold has been a professor of architectural design at RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York and Parsons School of Design New York. She has been invited to sit on various Juries for architecture and design competitions. In 2015 Ruth Berktold was a judge for the Cannes Lions awards for the category of product design .

The research and design work of YES ARCHITECTURE includes architectural design, interior design, furniture, product and web design. The multi-disciplinary nature of this office focuses on the engagement of diverse groups of artists and designers in a fluid, evolving, research-based, collaborative practice.